synflux | ( OPEN ) we are here and going to make it everyone's problem

WHO: Team Everlight and YOU
WHAT: Breaking the ice with a spontaneous slumber party
WHERE: Everlight wing
WHEN: Some time after arrival
WARNINGS: Destroying friendships with UNO or something. Will edit for real as things come up.

(The fun thing about being taken and thrown into a new place is no one really knows you so when Tsurumaru Kuninaga is missing from dinner, he's sure no one really notices. Eventually someone will learn that whenever he's missing for too long, he's probably up to something if he doesn't actually have something to do.

He returns some time towards the end of dinner, when most people have probably begun to settle a bit for the evening. He stumble-dashes back to the base with an armful of plastic shopping bags and oooh he is definitely up to something…)

& SET UP

In the Everlight wing, they need to do some ☆re-arranging☆. Some desks and chairs need to be borrowed from rooms to drag outside for the food. While they're at it, they might as well grab the blankets and pillows too. They might also have to figure out what appropriate music to play. So maybe someone knocks on your door to commandeer your furniture and time. Or maybe they figure out a way to play music so everyone can hear and you end up drawn out by music.

Maybe you get sent out to buy more snacks and drinks for everyone while you're standing around with nothing to do. Let's go, Everlights. It's time to drag people into early shenanigans.

& FOOD & GAMES

There is plenty of food to be found. Check out the mixed bottles of different flavored sodas and teas, assorted chocolates, and other sweets from the convenience stores. Eventually, a couple of pizzas and a few more substantial things might show up on the table. Some of them are traditional flavors characters will be used to seeing but others may… be more out there. There sure are a lot of more experimental foods combinations in the future, huh? Have you ever tried coffee-flavored water? Yogurt-flavored potato chips? Flaming hot lava chocolate? What about calamari Oreo pizza? Well, now is your chance.

There are also stacks of playing cards and maybe some other silly toys and games from whatever is the equivalent of a dollar/pound store in the future.The 100 Kryptos store? Which version of UNO do you know how to play? Do you know how to play Werewolf or Mafia? There are plenty of bottles to spin. Give someone a call and see if they answer or else you have to eat one of those cursed pizza slices. Of course, when enough people gather around, there are plenty of other ways to make your own fun.

& CHILL

For more introverted characters that might want a quieter place to hang out, some Everlight has probably left their room open. Pillows and blankets have been piled into the room to make it a quieter, more laidback place to hang out. When was the last time you made a pillow fort?

// WILDCARD/OOC

Hello, Tsuru gets bored easily and he wants everyone to have ☆good vibes☆ because bad vibes make him sad so he is steamrolling and dragging people into slumber party shenanigans. It's in the Everlight wing but other characters can hop over if they're curious or dragged in. I asked the mods about the potential consequences of staying the night and they said it would be fine for the slumber party so go wild.

Treat this as an open mingle and feel free to come up with your own ideas and tag around. If anyone really needs me for anything, you can DM me or catch me on plurk (

yosakoi ).

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

(Can't let a yukimi daifuku go to waste...)

The mochi? (That's what they're talking about, right? They definitely aren't still talking about the party unless they are... but just in case,) Or everyone?

Mhm.

(He nods, but to which question is ???)

Why not both?

[Ren is willing to be flexible about this. No reason not to accept that as a collective response, after all.]

Could you hand that to me, by the way?

["That" being an empty pizza box... It's greasy.]

Both were good.

(He had fun. He was surprised. And the mochi was good.

He slides the box over to him,)

Have you explored this world much?

[He smiles a little before he takes the box and sets about breaking it down, carefully navigating around the grease to fold it flat.]

A little bit.

[As much as he can, actually.]

I was living in Tokyo before this, so it's similar but different enough to make walking around...weirder.

[Really feels like the metaverse sometimes, tbh.]

Ah, so you're from here, too?

(He'd been in the middle of gathering up some of the empty paper plates and cups to trash but that catches his attention, )

I was here before, too. (Which reminds him that the year here is 2277 and that, in turn, makes him wonder...) I wonder how my resting place is...

[There are so many layers to how odd that last sentence comes across, especially to a teenager who seldom (never) reflects on his own mortality.

Is this guy dead? Not dead and just very forward thinking? Does Ren just not understand what he said (unfathomable world-specific keywords)?]

You know where your grave is?

My grave?

(He can see where that interpretation may come from and he can't help himself. He smiles at Akira, as if he's enjoying some inside joke all for himself and replies as calmly and as naturally as if he were talking about the weather,)

That's somewhere different.

[It's hard not to interpret that as a challenge after playing a game like it with Akechi for the past few months. A challenge to do what? He hasn't figured that part out yet; maybe there's a truth to dig up here, but he doesn't have enough of a framework to even start guessing what it is.

Ren sets aside the box and moves back to collecting other bits of trash around, matching the casual tone.]

Then what is it? Your resting place.

(Not me saying Akira out of habit RIP.

With the party over, there are really no distractions to take away from the conversation now, are there? He minds himself, picking some of the things on the table, bringing them over to toss into a bin somewhere, and hums,)

A place to rest, of course. For example... where will you sleep tonight?

(That moment when your party organizer reveals he's a cryptid that speaks cryptically.)

[Big salad ~~cat~~ crane vibes, tbh.

Ren won't push for no reason, though, especially with someone he's basically just met, so he just answers like that's a totally normal inquiry:]

Depends on who stole my blanket and pillow.

[Like he can even tell which were originally his at this point. Well, maybe he could... Third Eye might work.]

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